I am delighted to announce that I will be giving a talk at San Diego State University as part of their Horror and Monstrosity lecture series. My presentation “The Fiend with a Thousand Faces: Monsters as a Mirror of Humanity” will be the capstone lecture, and take place on campus at 2:00 PM on Thursday, April 25. The entire series looks great and all of the lectures are free and open to the public, so if you’re in the area be sure to check out the event page for more details.

Huge thanks to SDSU’s Classics and Humanities Department for hosting the event, and Dr. Raechel Dumas for inviting me. Raechel is the author of the brilliant The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture, so she knows her way around the intersections of the uncanny, the abject, and academia. She’ll be presenting as well, with the full lecture line up as follows:

Thursday, March 14 @ 2:00 PM in AL 101  

Viewing Horror: The Appeal of Monsters and Monstrosity from Antiquity to Modern Cinema

-Dr. Andrew McClellan, Stepsay Family Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics, SDSU 

Thursday, March 28 @ 2:00 PM in AL 101

Bloody Play: The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Video Games  

-Dr. Raechel Dumas, Assistant Professor in Humanities, SDSU   

Thursday, April 11 @ 2:00 PM in AL 101  

Will the Real Monster Please Reveal Itself?: Heteropatriarchy, the Monstrous-Feminine, and Stranger Things

-Dr. Phillip Serrato, Associate Professor in English, SDSU

Thursday, April 25 @ 2:00 PM in AL 101

The Fiend with a Thousand Faces: Monsters as a Mirror of Humanity

-Jesse Bullington, American Fantasy Writer & Author